Slow access to win2k mapped drives and folders

[The PIT]

Mmm never considered problems the other way round.
Yeh another thing what is annoying since I mapped the shared folders on my small very small home network (2 Computers). After the darn thing has gone into sleep mode, when ever I want to access my other drives on the non host machine I have to wait until the mapped drives are refreshed.
This is stupid!!!!!!!!!!!
This must be to do with the autodisconnect so what registry settings do I need to change. The autodisconnect for Lan has the settings 00 00 00 01.
Whats this in english for someone on the cider???

[This message has been edited by The PIT (edited 26 January 2001).]

[Guyver]

Actually, the larger the network it is, the more you need to disable the master browser, except for some dedicated Masters.

The reason for this is that if you don't, every time a PC comes on-line, it goes out and asks, "Who's the master browser? I vote for me!", then all the systems have to vote, and a new master browser is elected. Then all the systems have to send a "Here I am, look at me" broadcast to the new master. Another PC comes on-line, and it starts all over.

As far as protocols go. Disable all but TCP/IP if you can. You can still use Netbios over TCP/IP for broadcasts, as the packets will be encapsulated within IP. By dropping NETBIOS by itself, you will reduce your LAN traffic by a ton.

Also, I disable all Power Management features, except for monitor. LAN connected equipment are still very sensitive to timeouts due to power management shutting down the card/process that sends out the little "I'm still alive" blips. If those disapear for an extended period of time, the network gives you up as lost, and drops you from the list of Up-and-running systems for the network browser. Then when the system comes back up, it has to send several "Here-I-Am-Again" packets, then the server has to authenticate the fact that the system is who it says it is and not some other system, then it attempts to re-establish connectivity. All this takes time.

Anyway, these are just things I've learned in my years of maintaining small to middlin' networks with underpowered, underbudgetted resources.

The "Here-I-Am" type stuff in quotes are just meant to give something meaningful and "rememberable" to the packets. There true functions, can be, and probably are totally different...

Guyver